Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song be removed from the radio before Her Majesty's visit; otherwise she may get the impression that we are sadly lacking...
...show brings back just about everything that ever belonged to the girl who was the toast and tattle of France, whose sexy, banana-girdle routines led the Lost Generation through the rhythms of le jazz hot. There is a showboat Cakewalk, some St. Louis blues, a song of Harlem in hard times and of Negroes in Paris; there is a flash of the old Folies and the new ballets; there is Josephine doing a Gypsy ballet and "The Charleston Forever" in black gold-spangled tights...
...Verve album with an infectious grace as easy as a ramble through the high cotton. The combination of Armstrong's gravel throat and Ella's honey-clear voice in Bess, You Is My Woman Now makes for the finest reading of the song on records...
Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Flower Drum Song's Anita Ellis and the Metropolitan Opera's Heidi Krall, among others, providing mint-julep entertainment...
...sense. Lisa has been preparing that act ever since she sang her way out of the chorus line and up to a mike at Manhattan's old Versailles club. Rodgers & Hammerstein spotted her there, signed her for Allegro (1947), outfitted her with a show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps...